Bug 499763
Summary: | virt-install should warn about minimum memory | ||||||||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Aron Griffis <aron.griffis> | ||||||
Component: | python-virtinst | Assignee: | Cole Robinson <crobinso> | ||||||
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, berrange, clalance, crobinso, virt-maint | ||||||
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened | ||||||
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Hardware: | All | ||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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Last Closed: | 2012-01-25 18:42:41 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
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Ah, but on another virtual console in the guest I see an OOM condition. I'll attach another screenshot. Created attachment 342972 [details]
out of memory
Using --ram=512 works around the problem. Is 256M really not enough to install a guest? Unfortunately, it's really not. We have had this problem forever, going back to RHEL-5. On 64-bit machines, python (and hence anaconda) eats a *lot* of memory, and 256MB is just enough. Actually, I've had problems with 512MB as well, with the OOM killer kicking in at some point during install. From my experience, you need at least 512MB with 32-bit, and 768MB with 64-bit. I'm going to close this bug, since there's really nothing we can do about it from the virtualization side. Feel free to re-open if you want to assign it to anaconda or something. Chris Lalancette I'm reopening this bug, because I think we should extend the virt-install OS type/variant metadata to record the recommended minimum RAM for each OS type. Then if the user requests a RAM setting less than the recommended minimum, we can at the very least warn them ahead of time. Thanks Dan, that would be great. This bug came as a surprise because I've been able to install Windows and non-RH Linux distros in smaller memory. Since python/anaconda need so much, I'm sure it would save people some headaches for virt-install to emit a warning. Actually, it would be great for the installer to be aware of its requirements and emit a warning, but it's too late to go back and fix the installers in older releases. *** Bug 499762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Personally, I think this is an anaconda bug - it should warn people if they don't have enough memory to install. See also bug #480826 This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping This message is a reminder that Fedora 11 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 11. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '11'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 11's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 11 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. This message is a reminder that Fedora 12 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 12. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '12'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 12's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 12 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Still present, moving to rawhide *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 500320 *** |
Created attachment 342971 [details] screenshot of vnc window Description of problem: rawhide (post-f11preview) installed on an HP ProLiant DL385. Attempt to install f10 guest with: virt-install --name=f10-vm1 --ram=256 --hvm --accelerate \ --cdrom=Download/f10-boot.iso --file=/dev/VolGroup00/f10-vm1 \ --vnc --vncport=5902 Install never transitions to graphics mode, see attached screenshot Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.29.2-126.fc11.x86_64 qemu-kvm-0.10-16.fc11.x86_64 python-virtinst-0.400.3-8.fc11.noarch libvirt-0.6.2-6.fc11.x86_64 libvirt-python-0.6.2-6.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: every time